# You must be a specialist in one thing or mediocre in various: the worst advice that you already hear —- Part 1

I was at an event recently and one of the expositors, who is a back-end developer, said: "The guy is back-end or front-end. To be full-stack is don't know to do nothing. That is generalist, not a specialist". Well, he and I agree in disagree.

First, let’s define what is be specialist: A specialist is someone who has deep knowledge and ability in a specific area or matter. Therefore, considering what the expositor said, we have the dichotomic vision: you’re a specialist in one area or don’t know to do anything. In other words, that idea implied that you must dedicate yourself, throughout your life, to just on thing. 

I know, seems an overkill, right? But, believe me, has people who think like that.

And you can say to me (with all reason): “But what's up? Tell me more about this and the fundament of your opinion”

First, the vision, generally, do you stay dependent on only “one thing” and, in a dynamic market, that is dangerous.

Besides the limitation of creativity, innovation, and emotional smart that is implied.

“How like this?”

When focused on any area, in a determined moment (in case you’ve resilience) you arrive in the comfort zone, what the specialists called “flux” and, with the vision focused in just one area, you’ll be jailed in it. That will impact your ability to have new experiences and have relationships with different people (profiles), interests, and cultures. That, as I said previously, certainly will impact your creative, innovation, and emotional potential.

“Right, so you want to say for me that being mediocre is the better option?”

Keep calm, because between the sky and the ground exist more things that we can comprehend. So, we will see from a different perspective.

Being generalists isn’t been mediocre, same because we are different people, with different visions and motivations. Being a generalist means having knowledge and abilities in different areas.

Being a generalist means being flexible, conquest and/or developing your capacities of adaptability. It’s about being creative, innovative, and curious. It’s about being able to take different opportunities that the market or life offers to you, looking for new knowledge and experiences. It’s about improving your capacity for problem resolution.

“Yeah… that sounds good to me”... “but seems a concept abstract a lot. Does this work already for anyone?” (Continues in part 2)